diff --git a/cli-plugins/hooks/template.go b/cli-plugins/hooks/template.go
index ba77dd3f6840..cc8901593c30 100644
--- a/cli-plugins/hooks/template.go
+++ b/cli-plugins/hooks/template.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// FIXME(thaJeztah): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.24
+
 package hooks
 
 import (